Community

New graduates complete empowerment training

From the December 13, 2013 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

Dawn Siewert is standing in the reception room of the Mountain Communities Family Resource Center in Frazier Park a few days before Thanksgiving. She is clasping a thick, white, three-ring notebook with …

Bob Stowell, Senior Dies at 78 in L.O.W.

From the December 13, 2013 Edition

Longtime mountain resident Bob Stowell, Sr. died Monday, Dec. 9 of natural causes.

Stowell passed peacefully at home in Lake of the Woods while under hospice care, according to his son Craig Stowell.

An obituary …

Local woman seeks liver donor

From the December 13, 2013 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

About six months after opening the bustling little Alive Boutique on Mt. Pinos Way in Frazier Park, Monica Davila Briones told her daughter Erika Alvarez that she was suddenly feeling very ill.

Mountain Community Water District Updates

From the December 13, 2013 Edition

Lebec County Water District

The LCWD board voted on Tuesday, Dec. 10 to appoint Michael Hightower to fill one of the two vacant seats on the board. Hightower was sworn in at the beginning of …

The Outlets at Tejon Ranch announce first stores

From the December 13, 2013 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

Tejon Ranch Company (TRC)announced this week that it is still on schedule to open an outlet mall at the northern base of the Grapevine by August 2014.

“We are very excited to …

Holiday Faire Fantasy of Lights

From the December 13, 2013 Edition

Cold but happy

Santa brought North Pole weather with him for the Fantasy of Lights Parade December 7. In the Wings Dance Studio reindeer all had red noses. The temperature was about 28°F for the …

What Nelson Mandela’s fight for freedom means to me

From the December 13, 2013 Edition

By Nide Zimemo, Frazier Park

I was born and raised in a small town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, formerly known as the Transkei. My small town of Butterworth was an hour …

Restless Thanksgiving Skies

From the December 6, 2013 Edition

Grayson Sparkman of Pine Moutnain was up early Thanksgiving morning. He took this photo of restless Thanksgiving skies at 6:30 a.m. The storm clouds that brought the Mountain Communities a night full of rainfall blew …

Wanted: Your dreams and ideas for the Mountain

From the December 6, 2013 Edition

Come to the United Way Roundtable Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 5:30 p.m., Frazier Park Library

By Patric Hedlund

Opinions are never in short supply in the Mountain Communities, but places to share your ideas and …

$250,000 water grant coming to LOW

From the December 6, 2013 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Company has been sent a funding agreement for a $250,000 emergency water supply grant. Water Operator Rafael Molina, Jr. said he believes there will be an …